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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitLab

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AGitLab is an intelligent orchestration platform for DevSecOps, where software teams enable AI at every stage of the software lifecycle to ship faster. The platform enables teams to automate repetitive tasks across planning, building, securing, testing, deploying, and maintaining software.

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    IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery

    Score8.1 out of 10
    N/AIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery, available on IBM Cloud, allows users to provision an integrated toolchain using customizable, shareable templates with tools from IBM, third parties and open source. Automate builds and tests with Tekton-based delivery pipelines, and control quality with analytics.

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    Pricing
    GitLabIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Editions & Modules
    GitLab Free (self-managed)
    $0
    GitLab Free
    $0
    GitLab Premium
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Premium (self-managed)
    $29
    per month per user
    GitLab Ultimate
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    Lite
    $0.00
    Professional
    $35.00
    Authorized user per month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitLabIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalOptional
    Additional DetailsGitLab Credits enable flexible, consumption-based access to agentic AI capabilities in the GitLab platform, allowing you to scale AI adoption at your own pace while maintaining cost predictability. Powered by Duo Agent Platform, GitLab’s agentic AI capabilities help software teams to collaborate at AI speed, without compromising quality and enterprise security. If usage exceeds monthly allocations and overage terms are accepted, automated on-demand billing activates without service interruption, so your developers never lose access to AI capabilities they need. Real-time dashboards provide transparency into AI consumption patterns. Software teams can see usage across users, projects, and groups with granular attribution for cost allocation. Automated threshold alerts facilitate proactive planning. Advanced analytics deliver trending, forecasting, and FinOps integration.—
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    Community Pulse
    GitLabIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Considered Both Products
    GitLab
    No answer on this topic
    IBM
    Chose IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Both competitors listed work in a similar manner; you can automate the deployment of servers using configuration files and the command line. The difference is that Ansible and Terraform are provider-agnostic, meaning you can use them for other hosting providers as well (AWS, …
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    97%
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    Delivers good value for the price
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    80%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    99%
    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
    97%
    Implementation went as expected
    120 Answers
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    14 Answers
    Features
    GitLabIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of GitLab and IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    8.5
    4 Ratings
    13% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.24 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings8.84 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.63 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings8.73 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Search00 Ratings9.03 Ratings
    Visual planning tools00 Ratings9.04 Ratings
    Agile Development
    Comparison of Agile Development features of GitLab and IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Feature
    GitLab
    -
    Ratings
    IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    7.6
    6 Ratings
    0% below category average
    DevOps Tool Integrations00 Ratings8.66 Ratings
    Code Review00 Ratings7.45 Ratings
    Code Collaboration00 Ratings7.75 Ratings
    Velocity Calculation00 Ratings6.84 Ratings
    Dependencies and Blockers00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    GitLabIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.6
    (168 ratings)
    8.5
    (16 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    8.8
    (20 ratings)
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    User Testimonials
    GitLabIBM Cloud Continuous Delivery
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GitLab
    In general it's a good product with a huge number of features. It can do CI/CD checks, deployment, repo hosting, integrations etc. A lot of it can be managed from just the UI but also has an ok API. It does tend to release new features semi-often too which is nice. It can have a steep learning curve for certain features so not a starter-friendly vendor, but great for most businesses.
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    IBM
    It provides a cloud-based integrated development environment that integrates with other IBM Cloud services to provide a streamlined development workflow. This includes real-time collaboration and code sharing capabilities, making it easy for teams to work together on projects. This feature is very useful for our app to maintain the code
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    Pros
    GitLab
    • GitLab excels in managing code versions, allowing easy tracking of changes, branch management, and merging contributions.
    • It helps maintain code stability and reliability, saving time and effort in the development or research workflow.
    • Powerful code review features, enabling collaboration and feedback among team members.
    • Robust project management features, including issue tracking, kanban boards, and milestones.
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    IBM
    • It contains the deployment templates which are much more time saving and is of great use.
    • This has the integration of the Cloud applications which makes the work much more convenient.
    • This is flexible when it comes to development, deployment, and delivery.
    • [It] also has a much more reasonable pricing.
    • Provides space for the data storage.
    • [IBM Cloud Developer Tools] also can support many useful tools.
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    Cons
    GitLab
    • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
    • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
    • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
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    IBM
    • Its price is quite high and this made it unsuitable for us as we cannot afford such high rates.
    • Its Setup takes much longer time and this is frustrating.
    • Its interface needs to be improved and easy even for the Newbies.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GitLab
    I really feel the platform has matured quite faster than others, and it is always at the top of its game compared to the different vendors like GitHub, Azure pipelines, CircleCI, Travis, Jenkins. Since it provides, agents, CI/CD, repository hosting, Secrets management, user management, and Single Sign on; among other features
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    IBM
    It's a great platform to develop, run, test and deploy the applications easily. And it makes very easier and secure the implementation of continuous delivery process. For first time and experts also can use this service so easily. Great service provided by the IBM Cloud Continuous Service. There are more services that helps a lot to work on it. Thanks a lot.
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    Usability
    GitLab
    - As a combination of features and products, GitLab is a really great tool for developers. - Also, it comes with both light and quick changes in a web browser version, as well as pro work in VS Code mode. However, in certain areas, such as large-scale issues/incidents, management can be improved.
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    IBM
    Nothing special to say : the UX is clear and simple.
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    Reliability and Availability
    GitLab
    I've never had experienced outages from GItlab itself, but regarding the code I have deployed to Gitlab, the history helps a lot to trace the cause of the issue or performing a rollback to go back to a working version
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    IBM
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    Performance
    GitLab
    GItlab reponsiveness is amazing, has never left me IDLE. I've never had issues even with complex projects. I have not experienced any issues when integrating it with agents for example or SSO
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    IBM
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    Support Rating
    GitLab
    At this point, I do not have much experience with Gitlab support as I have never had to engage them. They have documentation that is helpful, not quite as extensive as other documentation, but helpful nonetheless. They also seem to be relatively responsive on social media platforms (twitter) and really thrived when GitHub was acquired by Microsoft
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    IBM
    In more than a year using the IBM Cloud Continuous Delivery tool, I haven't had any major complaints or problems. However, in the last month, IBM suffered from a couple of problems through several of its services, and for a short period of time, I couldn't deploy successfully my projects. The problem was brief and was quickly fixed.
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    Alternatives Considered
    GitLab
    GitHub is an inferior product from most points of view. We had to use it and the teams finds no positives about it. Everything is a downgrade from our previous GitLab solution. GitLab CI\CD is vastly superior to workflows, for example doing a manual node is just "when : manual" in GitLab while you have to do clickops in GitHub to achieve the same. No overview of code in branches is a minus when we tried to figure out what our colleagues are trying to merge as it looked off.
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    IBM
    We chose IBM Cloud Developer Tools for multiple reasons. Cost, current infrastructure vendor list, and Cloud Operations team experience were key driving factors for us. Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud product was slick for sure but we found it more difficult to deploy and integrate with our current environment and applications
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    Scalability
    GitLab
    I think is very well designed, and like any VCS it works as intended
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    IBM
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    GitLab
    • GitLab cut down our spent on container, package and infrastructure registry
    • Best thing is we can now have everything in single platform which cost effective too
    • Quality of support is really good and they do have emergency support team as well which is great
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    IBM
    • This has made the configuration files much easier to access.
    • Has made the commands more logical as well as easy for use and learning.
    • Contains great AI capabilities
    • The documentation needs improvement.
    • Error received from commands are pretty hard to understand.
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